Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Try starting Emacs with a larger font, then.  As in
>
>   emacs -Q -fn "FOO-18"
>
> where FOO is the font you get by default, like "DejaVu Sans Mono" or
> something.

I'm still not seeing any difference whether the mouse is over the x or
not.

No mouse: